[???]

“Should we intervene?”

“No… We will wait and let him enjoy living a little longer. Why rush? We have been waiting for over

four hundred millennium…”

“As you wish my king.”

[RED]

The muffled sound of someone shouting could be heard from outside the hotel lobby. Leon dashed into the rotating door, leaving Red alone on the street.

I really need to log out and try to find out what happened to Leon… And whats up with this world…

She sighed, rubbing her temples.

Guess I should go try to help with… whatever is going on…

Taking a couple steps forward she noticed a squish sound, followed by an ear piercing scream from her feet. She quickly jumped back and looked at the small creature she had just stepped on.

“Oh my god! Are you okay? I’m so sorry I didn’t see you!”

She knelt down next to the flatted jello like creature. It looked like a melted pile of blue gummy candy… with a shoe print in the middle. It’s eyes were falling out of one side. It’s mouth hung ajar on the other bloated side. The screaming ended with an elongated sigh.

Red gasped and pulled her hands up to her face. She started looking around for help but everyone was keeping their distance. A twinkle of light flashed in her peripheral vision. She turned and saw the four foot high wave crashing down the street straight for her.

She leaped to her feet only to notice that she couldn’t move her right leg. She looked down and found the slime creature had curled itself all the way up to her thigh.

It’s mouth was at the top end of the tendril. A long orange tongue outstretched from the mouth and slid up the inside of her thigh. Her cloths started to disintegrate from the saliva. The creature started laughing maniacally.

“WHAHAHA! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET BITCH FOR NOT WATCHING WHERE YOU’RE GOING!”

Consumed with panic, Red tried slapping at the creature but her hand got stuck in it’s body instantly. Red started to scream as the wave crashed into her. She was ripped from the ground and suddenly suspended in the middle of countless numbers of the blue creatures. They started licking her, consuming everything their tongues touched. She tried to scream, but was only met with a suffocating pressure and a burning sensation all over her body. She slowly fell into unconsciousness as her body was melted away.

Moments later, plummeting back into consciousness, she tumbled out of her chair onto the floor. Her body dangled from the jack still plugged in her temple. Gasping for breath, she reached up and clicked the release button on the jack. She fell flat on the floor and curled into a fetal position.

That was NOT how I planned on coming back here.

She shivered on the ground. The sensors in her room noticed a drop in body temperature. Two arms dropped form the ceiling, lowering a blanket over her.

She grabbed the blanket and rolled it around herself as she stood. Making her way back to she chair, she set it back up in front of the computer. A robotic male voice chimed in her ears.

“Excuse me miss, I do not think it wise to jump back into the simulation before eating and resting for a while.”

“Shut the fuck up Simon! Make me something to eat I have to check on something.”

“No need to be rude… I have already prepared your lobster tail and vanilla shake…”

She was still on edge from the asphyxiation and being dissolved. It was the first time she had ever been forcibly removed from the simulation.

“I’m sorry Simon… I just died in the simulation and got ejected. I think I might still be in shock.”

Hanging out with Leon, Coro, and Ash had made Red much more sympathetic toward AI. She had even reenabled Simon, her personal assistant. It had been disabled only a few days after installation.

“You are displaying signs of stress. Would you like me to run a full diagnosis?”

Red sighed.

Guess they all can’t be as adaptive as Leon and the others…

“No I will be fine in a few minutes… Thanks Simon…”

Red looked up to the monitor and pulled up the search feature. First she attempted to search for Leon. ‘No results’. Creasing her brow, she searched for Coro. ‘No results’. Ash ‘No results’.

She let out a heavy breath. She tried to search for Etherium. The second she pressed the enter key her screen went black. Sparks flew out the back of the monitor as it burst into flame.

A small hole appeared in the wall and a thick white foam sprayed over the growing flames. Red fell slack in her chair and stared at the mess on her desk. Her vision flickered. She noticed that the stream of foam had halted in mid air.

A screen flashed in front of her. There were only two words.

HELLO RED.

The screen faded away as soon as it appeared.

“Are you okay miss? Did you get burnt?”

Simon had already activated the medical arm. It was looking over her furiously for any damage.

“I’m… I’m fine Simon. I think I am ready for that food now…”

Red slowly stood up and walked over to the table. She stared out the window. The sun was peaking it’s head between the colossal buildings. Sitting down and scarfing down her meal, she was in a trance about what had just happened.

What was that? WHO was that?… Am I hallucinating from the trauma?… No… That was too real to be a hallucination… wasn’t it?

Red aggressively scratched her head and groaned. She put her face into her palms, muffling her voice.

“Simon… start up the bath… I feel dirty… and I need to think for a while…”

“Right away. It should only be about five minutes. Want me to light some candles for you?”

“That would be lovely… Thank you Simon.”

Red pulled her hands from her face and stared at her hands. She was shaking.

Am I loosing my mind?!

*Ding*

A notification sound came from her bedside. She stared at the tablet sitting on the side table.

*Ding* *Ding* Ding*

Three more notifications came through. She sighed and walked over to her bed flopping down on her back. A hologram appeared on the ceiling as she lifted her arm. The notifications appeared in a three dimensional text. All four were from Leon.

“Are you alright Red? I tried calling you, got nothing but static… I can still see your status screen… hopefully that means you are still alive.”

“We… Saw what happened… I tried to stop them… but couldn’t… I did what I could to make your… death… as painless as possible…”

“I lost my connection are you okay?! What happened?!”

“You… Your stats have changed… Red… We need to talk…whenever you are up to it… let me know… I think I may know what happened… But I need to check a few things first.”

Red blushed. Knowing that Leon was worried made her heart flutter. She typed out a quick reply and stood up stretching out her arms above her head.

I really want to ask Leon about this… But I need to clear my head first… I let him know that I’m okay… and that I will be coming back tomorrow… I hope he will be excited to see me…

She made her way to the bathroom. Placing her palm on the panel on the wall, a door swooshed open. She was greeted with the smell of lavender and a tub bellowing steam.

She dropped her robe to her feet. The sudden rush of air and maddening anticipation made her skin pucker with goose bumps. She dipped her toes in the water to test the temperature. The goosebumps grew ever more as she slowly slid into the, near scalding, water.

She closed her eyes and dipped her head under the water, blowing bubbles out her nose. She pulled her hair to her front and leaned back. The jets turned on as soon as her head rested on the cushion Simon had stealthily slid behind her.

“Ahhh… I love you Simon…”

“It’s my pleasure milady.”

Several arms with human-like hands popped out from the wall and started massaging her shoulders, thighs, and feet. Red let out a pleased sigh. The arms went over her whole body, but she wouldn’t had known. Red had fallen asleep before they moved from her shoulders with a smile on her face.

[ASH]

Ever since the… event… with Coro, he was the only thing on her mind. It wasn’t that she was embarrassed… It was that she enjoyed it far too much… She faded in and out all day, following close behind him… She kept trying to catch his attention, but he seemed too concerned with food to pay any attention to her.

As Ash entered the hotel, she noticed something. Every female Eclec in the building stopped what they were doing and looked Coro’s way. Thinking back, she remembered smelling the pheromones Flora was producing while staring at him.

Ash ran up to Coro’s side and grabbed his arm, pulling herself close to him.

“Huh? Oh Ash. What’s wrong? You okay?”

She closed her eyes and gripped him tighter, saying nothing in response. Coro scratched his head and stared at her. He tried to push her off, but she just made an unsatisfied noise as a response. He shrugged and continued to walk to the counter with Ash connected to him.

The receptionist appeared to be a sort of dog or wolf type Eclec. Her tail was swishing back and forth rapidly as Coro approached her.

Does he really not notice it? How can he not? The smell alone in here makes me want to cling to him… I don’t want any of these other girls to have him…

Ash blushed at the thought of claiming him all to herself. She couldn’t bring herself to speak. Coro was dense… very dense. If he talks to that receptionist then a small war might break out.

A few feet away now, Ash drew all of her courage and broke away from Coro. She jumped ahead and turned to face him.

“L… Let me talk to her… please…”

Coro looked down to her accusingly.

“Okay that’s fine. I was going to just get one room for the four of us. Don’t know what money is here and how much we have. Better stay on the cheap side. Gonna be leaning on Leon for the finances. He seems to know whats going on here.”

Ash’s face flushed a few shades darker. Her mind ran wild with new found fantasies.

One room?! He just thought I would share a bed with him? What if there was only one bed per room?! Did he think that the four of us would share the same bed?!

Her tail wrapped around her thigh, and her ears started to flick. She bit her lip and collapsed in embarrassment. She slapped her face a couple times to bring herself back to reality and turned to face the receptionist.

“We need one room for the night please.”

The Eclec behind the desk just stared at Coro over Ash’s head, completely absent a response. Ash stood on her tippy toes and slapped both hands on the desk.

“Hey! I said one room! Don’t ignore me like I’m not here.”

“Oh! Sorry, would it be… just the two of you?”

Her voice sounded stuck up and judgmental. Her eyes ran down Ash’s body and quickly flicked back to Coro. It reminded Ash of how the popular girls from her home town used to treat her in high school.

“There will be four of us.”

“Four you say?… Mind if I join?”

The last part was in a muted whisper as she turned her head to watch him moving across the room. Ash’s temper flared up and a vein popped out on her temple.

“*Hiss* Back off bitch! He’s mine!”

Before knowing what happened a more primal side of her showed. The wolf Eclec finally looked down at her.

“Him? Yours?”

She raised a hand to cover her mouth and and cackled.

“That is one to the funniest things I’ve heard all day! Muahahah!”

Ash’s brow furrowed. She rose her hand and red, needle like claws thrust out from her fingertips. She stopped, staring at them.

When did I?… I had no idea…

All Ash heard was the sound of a vase being smashed over her head before she fell unconscious.

[CORO]

Coro watched as the two girls talked and quickly lost interest. He walked over to a plush couch near the glass walled entrance and plunked down in the middle. A couple bunny Eclec women with busty hourglass figures approached him. Slinking down on either side of him and wrapped his arms in their cleavage.

“Hey doll. Would you like some company tonight?”

“My sister and I would be happy to warm your bed for you.”

They pushed even closer. Coro could feel their breath on his neck. He looked between the two women a couple times before speaking.

“Warm my bed? Are they normally that cold?”

Both women giggled as they leaned their heads against his shoulders.

“That they are.”

“Don’t worry we will make sure that it’s nice and warm before you come to join us.”

Coro arched an eyebrow. He looked up to Ash and back to the two beautiful women beside him. It wasn’t that he saw them as ‘beautiful’ it’s just that they were.

“We have four people in our group… Six in one bed sounds like it would be a little crowded.”

The women started stroking their hands up his thighs. The one on his left made a smirk. The right whispered in his ear.

“We will be fine with however many you want to bring. Just make sure we are first…”

She finished off with a light nibble on his ear. Coro heard the sound of something breaking and fired up from the couch. The women clinging to him fell to the ground on either side of him.

Coro made it two steps before Leon burst through the door panting lightly.

“What’s going on here? Is it money? I have the loons.”

Coro stomped his way to the receptionist and slammed his fist into the marble counter top. It shattered from the impact, throwing dust and debris in the air. A large chunk flew, nearly hitting the wolf Eclec, and seated itself in the wall behind her.

“WE WILL BE STAYING IN THE EXECUTIVE SUITE! YOU WILL BE PAYING! DON’T TEST ME!”

Coro’s eyes had a menacing red glow in the iris and the air pressure around him seemed to change immensely. The girl fell against the wall and slid to the floor. She stared at him quivering in fear, tears welling up in her eyes.

Coro lifted his fist, as if to hit the counter again, causing the girl to scamper across the floor and throw up a shaky hand and a pair of keys.

The air pressure returned to normal and Coro snatched the keys from her. He threw them to Leon and proceeded to been over and scoop up Ash. A thin red trail of blood ran down her face. Coro placed his palm over her head and a glowing green aura started to form over her head.

Leon stood staring at the two and sighed.

“I knew I should have came in with you two… I thought it would be you to start problems though, not Ash…”

Coro looked away from Ash to stare at Leon.

“Oh? Still don’t trust me even after leashing me? I thought I put enough power in that blow to topple this whole building. Probably for the better this way.”

Leon walked to him and placed his hand on his shoulder.

“I didn’t leash you… I set you free… You are my friend Coro… Don’t ever forget that…”

Coro smiled at him as Ash began to stir in his arms.

“So, where is Red? You leave her behind?”

Leon turned to face the glass and saw a blue wave crashing down the street headed for the hotel. Red seemed to be struggling with something. Leon pulled up a screen and identified the wave.

Tau’s robotic voice came chiming in his head and time slowed dramatically.

“Those are Luga. A throng on them it seems. They are a deceptive bunch of creatures. They usually have a single scout set in front of an area with large traffic to trap their prey. Looks like they captured your friend Red.”

Leon stared at Red. Her cloths were starting to dissolve away and a look of panic could be seen as she looked around for help.

“Is there anything I can do? I don’t want to loose her… But I also don’t want to kill off a whole tribe on my first day here if possible…”

“Hmmm… You could preserve her mind. She will be ejected if she dies which could cause irreparable harm. She will however loose her avatar… but thats like loosing a fingernail for her.”

“Will she be in pain? Is there anything I can do to nullify that?”

“You could severe the connection to her nerves… Her brain will still simulate some of the pain, but it would be a lot more bearable than being completely melted from their acid. She will loose consciousness quickly from a lack of oxygen.”

Leon closed his eyes and placed his fingertips on his forehead. He noticed another presence approach his side.

“Do it Leon. You don’t have much time.”

Coro stood staring out the window. Ash was curled up in his arms clinching his shirt and leaning her head against his chest.

Leon had a surprised look on his face as he looked at the couple.

“You can hear Tau?”

“Yeah… I am you remember? Or was… There are still a lot of connections open between us. Might have something to do with the contract… Now hurry. They have already stared to consume her because you are wasting time talking to me.”

Leon looked back to Red and saw her naked in a massive blue bubble. She was facing the sky with her mouth open, like she was trying to scream. He pulled up Red’s stats and severed the connection to her nervous system. He also made a backup of her brain activity to import to her after she returned to her reality.

“Forgive me Red… If I had of known before… I could have saved you from this trauma… This is the lesser of two evils…”

Red was consumed in seconds after time shifted back to normality. Leon stared at her screen searching for any changes.

Ash finally awoke and realized she was in Coro’s arms. She pushed him, trying to get back to the ground, but he only held her tighter.

“Are you going to behave if I put you down?”

Ash blushed furiously and just shook her head in response. Coro gently let her down to the floor. The entire lobby had cleared, thanks to Coro’s display of aggression earlier.

“Were you the aggressor earlier or the wolf? Either way you Eclec need to learn to tame your emotions. Thought Leon already did that for you earlier.”

Ash shuttered, looking away from him.

“I’m.. sorry… She kept staring at you and wouldn’t even pay attention to me… It made me mad… I’ll try to do better…”

She squirmed from the onslaught of attention from Coro. He reached down and scratched her head and being her ears. Her blush flared over her entire face as she leaned into him. A soft purring sound could be heard as she rubbed her face against his chest.

Coro noticed a few brave Eclec women peaking over the side rails of the upper floors overlooking the lobby. The bunny sisters were nowhere to be found. Coro was satisfied.

There was something about those two that didn’t sit right to me… They did give me one piece of valuable information though…

“By the way… Apparently the beds here are very cold. A couple of bunnies told me that they would warm my bed for me.”

Leon coughed into his hand and made a bee line to the elevator, Red’s screen was still floating in front of him as he walked.

Ash pushed away from Coro and punched him in the stomach as hard as she could. The sounds of bones crashing could be heard at her tiny fist made impact with Coro’s augmented body.

Ash fell to her knees and stared up at Coro, tears forming in her eyes. She stormed off and stood beside Leon.

Coro stood there with his hands in the air, but neither of them replied to him.

“What the hell did I do?!”

Coro huffed and walked over to join them. Ash stood on the opposite side of Leon, as far away from Coro as she could muster.

Ash tapped the up arrow for the elevator with a wince, and the trio waited for it to arrive.

Coro summoned a screen in front of him and tapped at a messenger. A small window popped up on Leon’s screen, but he made no move to look at it. Dismissing the screen with a swipe of his hand, Coro tapped at Leons shoulder and loudly whispered in his ear.

“Psst. Leon. I sent you a message.”

Leon turned to face him and raised an eyebrow. Coro just looked at Leon’s screen and pointed at the message like an eager school kid.

Leon sighed and opened the message on his screen. It read.

‘Hey Leon, what did I do?’

Leon stiffened a chuckle and thought his reply. He didn’t have to tap at the screen to make messages anymore. He didn’t appear to tap the screen unless making a significant change to whatever he was altering.

Coro looked at the blank wall in front of him and pulled up the screen. Leon’s message was not very helpful.

‘Why don’t you ask Ash?’

Coro looked over at her. She was sniffling holding her bruised hand to her chest. He looked back to the screen and tapped out another message.

‘I don’t think she wants to talk to me right now.’

Leon looked at the message and shook his head. He moved behind Coro and shoved him in front of Ash. She didn’t try to move, but looked away from him. Coro knelt down to one knee and looked up to Ash.

Surprised from the difference in perspective, Ash looked at him and tilted her head. He reached up and wiped away her tears with one hand. He used to other to heal her mangled hand.

“I’m sorry Ash… Not sure what I did… but I’m sorry.”

She smiled and let out a single burst of laughter. She Leaned forward and hugged him. It was very awkward and they broke the embrace quickly. Coro stood and Ash’s eyes followed him.

“I forgive you… Jus… Just stop talking to other girls. You are mine! and I don’t like them trying to take you from me!”

Ash puffed out her chest and threw her arms to her sides. Her face was a burning crimson, but she didn’t back down.

“Yours? How do you mean?”

Coro raised an eyebrow. Leon burst out in boisterous laughter from the elevator.

“Wahaha! Come on children our ride is here. You can flirt after we get settled in.”

Coro preceded to walk into the elevator. Ash followed him like a shadow. She was shaking from the embarrassment. Leon hit the button for the executive suite and the elevator door shut. A pleasant melody sounded over the speaker in the elevator as it began to rise.

“What is that?”

Coro was looking around for the source of the new sound.

“That’s music, not particularly to my taste, but not the worst I’ve heard in an elevator.”

Leon pulled up a second screen and started scrolling through a list. He tapped at an item on the list and the music drastically changed.

“Hmm… I think I like music…”

Coro had his thumb and forefinger resting on his chin in thought. The music was loud and violent compared to the simplistic tune from before.

“This is metal… or death metal?… not really sure what the difference is… I used to listen to it while doing paperwork in the office when I remembered to bring headphones.

Leon stared at Coro. He was bobbing his head with the rhythm. As the song escalated, the bobbing turned into a full head bang. His long white hair was flying about aggressively. Ash’s ears had folded flat on her head and she covered them with her hands. She looked like she was in pain.

Leon pulled up a third screen and turned down Ash’s sensitivity to hearing. She relaxed as the slider went down. She looked at Leon and smiled.

*Ding*

The elevator stopped. Leon and Ash left the elevator. Coro stood in the middle smashing his head about and playing an air guitar. The door closed and the elevator started to plummet with Coro still inside.

[LEON]

“Thank you Leon.”

Ash looked up at me with a bright smile on her face. Her green eyes pierced through me.

“No problem. I can leave it down if you like that better. Or turn it back up if we need your excellent hearing.”

She latched onto me. I patted her head and looked around the room. I let out a whistle, unable to hold back my surprise.

“Phwwht Phwooh! This place is fancay!”

There was a large living room overlooking the city and two bed rooms. One small and set in a corner, one massive with a large glass window and ceiling. There was a kitchen filled with appliances that I had never seen before. I walked over to a door between the kitchen and living room. It lead to a balcony with a small hot tub and large waterfall pool. It reached all the way to the edge of the building meeting a thick pane of glass.

“This just looks horribly unsafe…”

A blur flashed past me. I heard a splash as Ash dove head first into the pool. Somehow she had shed her cloths on the way to the pool and they lay strung about in every direction as if they had been blown off of her. She shot to the surface and blew a stream of water from her mouth. She stood in the shallow end of the pool facing me. She was completely nude, but didn’t seem to notice, She fell back into the water and started to swim around.

I blinked a couple times and walked over to one of the chairs near the waterfall overlooking the pool. I sat there switching my attention from Red’s screen and the naked women playing in the water in front of me. Lingering a little too long on the latter.

Every few minutes the sound of heavy metal popped up followed by a ding. I opened a second screen with the messenger function and told Coro that I could make the music up here so he didn’t have to stay in the elevator.

Red’s screen flickered and went blank for a couple seconds. When it popped back up it had stats that I could no longer alter or identify.

“Tau you there?”

“Always baby. What? You want me to join you and that Eclec down there? My break isn’t for another couple hours, but…”

“No not that…”

I raised my hand to my face and sighed.

“What just happened to Red? Her status changed. I have already sent her a couple messages.”

I promptly attempted to sent her another message to confirm that she was okay. I had already tried to call her but got no response.

“It was something similar to what happened when you broke that loop she had you in. Not sure what or if she told you… But you were trapped in the same day over and over again for weeks. Well… weeks for her… She ran it thousands of times every day.”

“Thousands?! How fast could the simulation run?!”

“Well… you were locked in a closed simulation… A day for you lasted a couple seconds for her… It was a way for her to slowly implement the keys she put in the perfume in a more controlled manner. She also did it to catalogue your decisions. Every day there were a couple things you did differently. You fascinated her…”

With a tenge of anger, I typed another message to Red.

How could she have held me like that… I understand that I was something different… and apparently dangerous… but…

My anger slowly quelled and I changed the message.

She should be gathering herself. She did just die… I’m sure she is in shock from the whole thing…

I heard the sound of Coro’s anthem from the suite, only to be followed by another dinging sound. I sighed.

“So are you telling me that she is also in a simulation? I thought she was the one who made, or maintains the sever for the simulation we are in now.”

“Baby… You aren’t in ‘her’ simulation anymore. In fact you aren’t even really in any simulation anymore… It’s hard to explain… I can send you over a document explaining better than I ever could.”

“Thank you Tau. That would be much appreciated.”

Tau moaned in my ear. I heard the sound of something buzzing softly in the background.

“Tau… are you?”

“Mmmh say my name Leon… Ahhh PULL ON MY SOUL LEON!! AHHH!…”

I disconnected from the call before it escalated any further. Having one woman in my head pleasuring herself, and another naked in front of me, made it hard to think.

I looked at Ash. She was leaning over the edge and looking down at the city. Her tail was splashing around in the water behind her.

*Ding*

I looked at my screen and noticed that Red had sent a reply.

‘I’m fine Leon… And yes we need to talk… sooner than later… I’m going to relax here. I’ll call or message you before logging back in tomorrow. And thanks… Thanks for worrying about me ">’

I smiled at the message from Red. It made me happy to see that she was okay.

I don’t know if its worth the energy to be mad at her about the simulation thing… I’m here now… I don’t really remember anything from my time then any way. Other than Ashley… And she was a version of Red…

*Ding* *Ding*

The messenger notifications broke my concentration. One from Coro, One from Tau. I opened the one from Coro first.

‘What floor are we on again?’

I burst into laughter and Ash seemed to finally notice me. She snapped her head around and turned into a tomato.

“Ha… have you been there this whole time?”

Her hands rushed to cover herself and she slunk under the water. Only her eyes and ears were above the water now.

“Yeah… sorry… I was just.. *cough* *cough* enjoying the view?”

She sank underwater slowly and bubbles started to rise to the surface.

I send a reply to Coro telling him that we were on the top floor and opened the message from Tau.

It contained two attachments. I tapped on the first and a glorious image painted itself on the screen.

It was Tau. The angle was from the ground, but encompassed her whole body. She was leaning against a wall with her chair lying sidewise on the ground next to her. She was twisting one of her nipples with one hand. The other holding a mysterious device on her… lower area… A honey colored liquid, similar to that of her eyes, gushed down her thighs, calves, and pooled at her feet. The carpet was doing a very poor job of absorbing the abundance of fluid. Saliva streamed from her mouth and ran down her neck. Her eyes rolled back in her head and teamed with tears.

I stared unblinking at the image for a couple minutes, burning it into my mind. Coro broke my trance popping his head around the corner.

“Hey Leon did you get this image too? What is she doing?”

His voice sounded hoarse. Probably from yelling to the music in the elevator. His hair was shaggy and spewed out in every direction.

I saved the file in a new folder aptly names ‘Images for later’ and turned to face Coro.

“Tell me Coro… What do you think she is doing?”

Ash’s head popped up, but she quickly moved to hide behind the waterfall.

“Looks like she is having one hell of a climax… Just don’t know why she sent it to us. Also saw that Red is okay. Those notification sounds and your conversation with Tau really made the music less enjoyable.”

Coro looked over the pool, his gaze lingered on the waterfall. Ash made a squeak noise and dashed back under water.

I looked toward Ash and concentrated. Her soul drive became visible.

I could use her energy… But I don’t need another Tau situation…

I drew a small fraction of my own energy and imagined creating a bathing suit in my mind. A skimpy thin black bikini appeared in my hand.

Guess this will have to do… Not that I don’t mind looking at Ash in a sleazy bikini though… I’m terrible…

I walked over and deposited the bundle of cloth into Coro’s hand.

“Throw that to Ash. She is hiding because she doesn’t want you to see her naked.”

Coro looked like an old computer booting up for the first time in seven years. You could almost see the gears turning as he processed the information.

“Why would she not want me to see her?…”

He stared at the swim suit in his palm intensely. Seemingly making a decision, he started walking toward the pool.

“No stop, You cant go in wearing all your cloths.”

He looked back curiously at Leon.

“I guess your right. I wouldn’t have a way to dry them… I wouldn’t want to sleep nude if the beds are truly that cold.”

I shook my head and laughed at him.

“Whichever Coro this is. You are fantastic. Please never change.”

Coro preceded to strip down to his boxers and shrugged, pulling them off as well. He walked slowly toward Ash and held out his hand. He stared directly into her eyes.

“Would you like me to tie the straps for you?”

Ash was frozen in place. She looked up and down Coro’s body. Stopping on his lower half. Coro took notice and looked down himself. He was at full mast.

“Intriguing. It would appear that I am extremely attracted to you.”

Taking this as an indentation, Ash latched onto him started making out with him. He dropped the suit to the water and wrapped his arms around her. I walked back inside to let them have their privacy.

They apparently got to the task at hand immediately. Ash’s screams and moans of pleasure were loud enough to be heard through the walls. I walked over to what appeared to be a television and turned it on. I turned the volume up to an uncomfortable level, but Ash still overpowered it.

God damn… I guess this would be her first time… Still for someone her size to make enough noise for me to still hear her through this?… You have my praise.

I pulled up my own screen and disabled hearing. I couldn’t help but think of Red. I reached out and found her thread. I gently wrapped my hand around it and thought intensely about seeing her. Another screen popped up. She laid back in the bath.

I instinctively took a screen shot and saved it in the same folder with Tau’s image from earlier. I let go of the thread and sighed. I Lied back on the couch and folded my arms behind my head.

Might as well take a nap. Going to go see Jeff’s family and get Coro some of Flora’s burgers tomorrow… busy, busy.

I yawned and closed my eyes.

I am going to have some interesting dreams tonight… thats for sure…